Consider:
1. It's been used like this for centuries
2. By well-known writers including Dickens, Twain, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Brontë
3. The definition of such usage is included in all major dictionaries
4. It's incredibly common in real-life use of the language
To somehow insist that it doesn't mean that, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, requires extraordinary feats of denial.
0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
